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  1. Re:$50...if your time is worth nothing on How One Photographer Is Hacking the Concept of Time · · Score: 2

    As art its kind of neat. The technique used in the shot of the 42nd street/grand central platform I could easily see used in normal movies. There is a market, he just needs some advertising...

  2. Re:What worries me... on Proposed California Law Would Mandate Smartphone Kill Switch · · Score: 1

    It's a thing. iPhone theft is the number one crime in NYC see http://www.uproxx.com/technology/2013/11/14-crime-nyc-iphone-theft/ among many others. As someone who lost an apple device to a mugger... this still seems like a horrible idea.

  3. Re:NSA failed to halt subprime lending, though. on NSA Says It Foiled Plot To Destroy US Economy Through Malware · · Score: 1

    There were a few copy cats IIRC... but they didn't make much of a splash. Since BIOS and OS vendors have been of the issue they didn't for 20+ I'm fairly skeptical that on the breadth of the claim. Plus since we would know they didn't force upgrade everyone's BIOS, and we would know about it if there was a patch to fix the issue in the Linux kernel this is most likely an OS specific issue.

    In other words they probably turned over a 0 day Windows exploits to Microsoft that would have allowed writing to the BIOS because there became aware that some other nation's NSAlike agency had become aware of it.

  4. What happens at a lot of places is that whatever is required to balance the cashier's till is taken out of their pay. So you likely aren't stealing from the store, but from someone who makes minimum wage.

  5. Re:You Can't Blow up a Social Relationship on Meet the 'Assassination Market' Creator Who's Crowdfunding Murder With Bitcoins · · Score: 1

    Not likely. McVeigh's manifesto got 0 attention and Kaczynski's only got published because it was demanded at a point where he had already killed and promised to stop if it was published.

  6. Re:NSA denies everything on NSA Broke Into Links Between Google, Yahoo Datacenters · · Score: 3

    Read carefully. The leaked doc suggests that the NSA broke in to the links between data centers and Alexander is claiming that they didn't break into their servers. Both things can be true.

  7. Re: Good thing no one used it on File-Sharing Site Was Actually an Anti-Piracy Honeypot · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Tbqh this doesn't pass the sniff test. More likely scenarios: 1) its a hoax/false flag and piracy nuke is the target. 2) He got a c&d and thinks that pretending that it was an anti piracy thing all along will help him with the lawsuit.

  8. Re: They dump your address book, so I'm not surpri on LinkedIn's New Mobile App Called 'a Dream For Attackers' · · Score: 1

    Your friend is to dumb to not enter his email address/password into random websites... don't be surprised if this isn't the last of the spam.

  9. Re:Hydrogen is indeed quite dangerous... on Tesla CEO Elon Musk: Fuel Cells Are 'So Bull@%!#' · · Score: 1
  10. Re: uninstalled on IE 11 Breaks Rendering For Google Products, and Outlook Too · · Score: 1

    Win 8 is not that bad once you get used to it, but adding the start button adds nothing. What we really want is a start menu or at least a start screen that doesn't take over everything.

  11. Re: What changed? on IE 11 Breaks Rendering For Google Products, and Outlook Too · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Unfortunately no, we still have to do it due to issues with Microsoft's CORS implementation... if you look at the workaround (uncheck use compatibility list) it seems even more unclear if this is a MS or Google problem.

  12. What changed? on IE 11 Breaks Rendering For Google Products, and Outlook Too · · Score: 2

    A quick Google search is only bringing up superficial stuff. Do we know what they broke/changed between IE10 and IE11 that broke google?
    It looks like the OWA thing is because exchange is doing UA sniffing and IE 11 no longer sends the MSIE string.

  13. Re:Scientology is a religion on Scientology's Fraud Conviction Upheld In France · · Score: 2

    It comes from a friend trying to differentiate between new agey religions and new agey cults.
    Mythical creatures are obviously not founders so the statement applies not to Mr. Frum, but to whoever invented him as an object to be worshiped.
    looking at this I don't think that Sikhs or any of the "medium sized religions" have an army or a navy which makes that definition somewhat problematic.

  14. Scientology is a religion on Scientology's Fraud Conviction Upheld In France · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The difference between a cult and a religion is that in a cult the founder is still alive. Since LRH is definitely dead er, has abandoned his meat body, that puts Scientology pretty much on par with the other groups that believe in sky wizards.

  15. Re:Like so many computer programs... on Sleep Is the Ultimate Brainwasher · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I don't think its shutting down, so much a suspending all of the threads while the GC runs.

  16. Re:some definitions for the non-native on Oakland Is Building a Big Data Center For Police Surveillance · · Score: 1

    gunshot sensors are an actual thing... they just don't work.

  17. Re:Good model on Ed Felten: Why Email Services Should Be Court-Order Resistant · · Score: 1

    One missing piece: Auditing. At the organisation that I'm writing software for (which handles fairly sensitive data) no one, not the NSA, not a drug cartel has the ability to access data without leaving a trace.

  18. Re:C'mon we know its on First 'Habitable Zone' Galactic Bulge Exoplanet Found · · Score: 1

    Didn't Handsome Jack kill those guys off?

  19. Re:Raspberry Pi to the rescue! on NSA Scraping Buddy Lists and Address Books From Live Internet Traffic · · Score: 1

    citation? I don't see anything in rfc 2822 or 5321 that would allow that.

  20. Re:Scary on DOJ: Defendant Has No Standing To Oppose Use of Phone Records · · Score: 1

    That isn't actually in the constitution... the court that it ruled that it had the power of constitutional review in Marbury v. Madison.

  21. Re:that ship has sailed on RMS: How Much Surveillance Can Democracy Withstand? · · Score: 1

    This isn't really a problem. If the government has a reason to investigate you having the tools to do so isn't necessarily a bad thing, and is much different than the capture everything and decrypt it if/when we are able to strategy hinted at by the Snowden leaks. Obviously, serving malware with no warrant or a "general warrant" is a serious overreach.

  22. that ship has sailed on RMS: How Much Surveillance Can Democracy Withstand? · · Score: 2

    Look at GMail, vs hush mail vs tormail vs lavabit and the like. The public just doesn't care and probably can't be made to care.

  23. thats the joke on Gravity: Can Film Ever Get the Science Right? · · Score: 1

    Almost everything on the list is adequately explained in the books.

  24. Re:Shade of Grey (lol) on Books With "Questionable Content" Being Deleted From ebookstores In Sweeping Ban · · Score: 1

    For perspective take a look at this. At least 2 of 10 have outright incest and almost all of them have some adultery, homosexuality, rape, or other content that was controversial at the time. Words are words, and some of the best fiction around has incorporated horrific or depraved events. Banning books based on how well they conform to social norms is not good.

  25. Google has something IBM doesn't on Could IBM's Watson Put Google In Jeopardy? · · Score: 1

    Namely, millions (billions?) of clicks per day indicating if a specific page is related to a specific query. You would need a much better algorithm to "do better" without that data.